Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were enclosed farmsteads typically built during the early medieval period, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches encircling a domestic interior. This one has been quarried almost entirely out of existence.

The site first appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838 as a circular embanked enclosure, somewhere between twenty and twenty-five metres in diameter. By the time the 1915 edition was produced, the cartographers recorded it as a roughly oval shape, already quarried away at the western end. When a field inspector visited in 1984, what remained was an irregular, probably oval enclosure stretching roughly thirty-five to forty-five metres across, bounded on its eastern and south-western sides by a scarp still standing about two metres high in places. A shallow external fosse, the term for a ditch dug around the outside of an enclosure, was faintly traceable, and there were hints of a possible outer bank to the south. Everywhere else, the perimeter and interior had been removed. A second inspection in 2000 found no visible remains at ground level whatsoever.

What the record shows, across a span of roughly 160 years, is not merely the loss of a single monument but a gradual erasure documented in increments. Each map revision and field visit caught the site at a different stage of disappearance, so the archive of its destruction is, in a strange sense, more complete than the archaeology itself ever was.